The biggest act of kindness from a stranger

I’ve decided not to bore you with my holiday too much because I fully intend to dine out on it for the rest of my life so there will be plenty of time for that in the future…

Instead I will tell you about my outstanding luck and a real random act of kindness.

I was sitting in a café outside the Barcelona Football Club stadium, bear with me – I am travelling with my 12-year old soccer addicted son, I had taken about a billion photos and was going through them with said son while waiting for my husband to return with some Spanish delicacies (hot chips).

We moved tables to escape the heat and carried on waiting for my husband who was taking, what seemed like all the time in the world, to return.

He did eventually return and as we started to eat his phone rang. My heart sank when I saw my father’s number. He hasn’t been well and I’ve only spoken to him once since his quadruple bypass (although I speak to my step-mother every day), he’s been very weak and not ready to talk to his daughters yet, it’s emotional stuff talking to your daughters after you’ve had major surgery and live in a different country to all your daughters, but he has called to say he’s doing okay and getting stronger.

A call in the middle of the day was unexpected and totally out of the blue. I felt sick. And petrified.

My husband passed me the phone and there was my dad. Sounding just like my dad – not sick at all.

“Have you lost your phone?” he asked me
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“Are you in an outside café in Barcelona?” he continued
“Um, yes” I replied with mounting fear. How did he know?
“A couple at the café found your phone and called me, they’ve got it and they are going to hand it in at the bar”.

Every single day of this holiday I have said to my husband “I can’t find my phone.” It’s become a running joke. I say it even when I am holding it.

I went to the bar quite trembly and embarrassed and asked if they had my phone. Nothing. Not just no idea where the phone was but no idea what I was talking about.

Eventually a man came up to us and asked if we had lost a phone and pointed us to a table where an angel sat with her husband. She had found my phone and assumed I was a child when she saw the cover – that was confirmed when she looked through my contacts and saw “daddy” as the most recently (and often) called number. I am not embarrassed, I do call him daddy and I have a very child-like phone cover (I prefer however to call it young and hip) She very kindly phoned my dad and put me back in contact with my phone – even though I was in Spain and my dad was in South Africa.

What an amazing act of kindness – not just to take the effort to call my dad and get my phone back to me – but to give me the opportunity to speak to my dad and hear that he really is getting better.

How’s that for an act of kindness? And as a bonus I haven’t lost my phone.